English Recordings

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In the North of England, there is a little fishing town called Whitby.
The place has not changed much for the past 300 years. It is there that Bram Stoker had the idea for his famous book "Dracula".

Dracula is the story of a vampire from Transylvania who travelled to England. During the journey, his ship was damaged in a terrible storm. Mysteriously all the crew were dead including the captain.....

When the ship was wrecked on the beach, the only creature which survived was a huge dog. The animal ran up 199 steps towards Whitby abbey and disappeared.. The dog was known to be one of the many forms into which a vampire could transform itself..... scary, isn't it?

From "Memorial seat" in Whitby. you can see the view that inspired the writer his Whitby scenes. Look across the harbour and you'll see the ruins of the Abbey, close to the ruins is. St Mary's church surrounded by a graveyard, you'll also see the 199 steps that go from the harbour to the abbey. Just to the left, there is the cliff where the boat sank.

About Whitby Abbey Stoker wrote, "It is a most noble ruin, of immense size, and full of beautiful and romantic bits.... Between it and the town there is another church, the parish one, round which is a big graveyard, all full of tombstones".

At the bottom of the cliff there is a maze of alleyways and narrow streets that go down to the quayside....Old houses hidden behind the fishmarket, cobbled streets, dark passages.....All this makes the prefect setting for a horror fiction.

Now, Do you know It was at Whitby that Stoker decided to call his famous character "Dracula."? While on holiday in the little town, Stoker visited the local library and borrowed a book, he discovered that "Dracula in the Wallachian language means Devil.". Stoker decided to call his vampire Count Dracula......

Here is a short excerpt from "Dracula"

"For a moment or two I could see nothing, as the shadow of a cloud obscured St. Mary's Church. Then as the cloud passed I could see the ruins of the Abbey coming into view; and as the edge of a narrow band of light as sharp as a sword-cut moved along, the church and churchyard became gradually visible... It seemed to me as though something dark stood behind the seat where the white figure shone, and bent over it. What it was, whether man or beast, I could not tell."

In the North of England, there is a little fishing town called Whitby. It is there that Bram Stoker had the idea for his famous book "Dracula." The place has not changed much for the past 300 years.

Dracula is the story of a vampire from Transylvania who travelled to England. During the journey, his ship was damaged in a terrible storm. Mysteriously all the crew were dead, including the captain...

When the ship was wrecked on the beach, the only creature which survived was a huge dog. The animal ran up 199 steps towards Whitby abbey and disappeared.. The dog was known to be one of the many forms into which a vampire could transform itself..... scary, isn't it?

From "Memorial seat" in Whitby. you can see the view that inspired the writer his Whitby scenes. Look across the harbour and you'll see the ruins of the Abbey, close to the ruins is. St Mary's church surrounded by a graveyard,..... you'll also see the 199 steps that go from the harbour to the abbey. Just to the left, there is the cliff where the boat sank.

About Whitby Abbey Stoker wrote, "It is a most noble ruin, of immense size, and full of beautiful and romantic bits.... Between it and the town there is another church, the parish one, round which is a big graveyard, all full of tombstones".

At the bottom of the cliff there is a maze of alleyways and narrow streets that go down to the quayside....Old houses hidden behind the fishmarket, cobbled streets, dark passages.....All this makes the prefect setting for a horror fiction.

Now, Do you know It was at Whitby that Stoker decided to call his famous character "Dracula."? While on holiday in the little town, the writer visited the local library and borrowed a book, he discovered that "Dracula" in the Wallachian language means "Devil.". Stoker decided to call his vampire Count Dracula......

listen to this excerpt from "Dracula".

"For a moment or two I could see nothing, as the shadow of a cloud obscured St. Mary's Church. Then as the cloud passed I could see the ruins of the Abbey coming into view; and as the edge of a narrow band of light as sharp as a sword-cut moved along, the church and churchyard became gradually visible... It seemed to me as though something dark stood behind the seat where the white figure shone, and bent over it. What it was, whether man or beast, I could not tell."